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Art and intention : a philosophical study / Paisley Livingston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, Paisley, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and philosophy.
- Intention.
- Art criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 251 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Philosophical study
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Do the artist's intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In 'Art and Intention' Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory.
- Contents:
- What are intentions?
- Intentions and the creation of art
- Authorship, individual and collective
- Intentions and oeuvres
- Texts, works, versions (with reference to the intentions of Monsieur Pierre Menard)
- Intention and the interpretation of art
- Fiction and fictional truth.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-241) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160226-4
- 1-281-19080-2
- 0-19-153517-6
- 9786611190804
- 1-4356-2114-X
- OCLC:
- 922953508
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